Weekend; or, Utopia is over!
Monday, April 14th, 2003 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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roozle-sunspiral clan came to the show; it was great to see them. So did several other cool folks, like cthulhia and prog... and C, for his second go-round (he'd come the previous Sunday). Needless to say, it was also great to see him. :-) Blew off shul Saturday morning to take him to breakfast at Carberry's, where (among much other good conversation) he told me about another of the installations he's worked on, a set of bells on a pedestrian bridge at the Charles River Dam. We were briefly tempted to zip over there so he could show it to me, but the weather was yucky and we were both getting pressed for time, so, another day. It seems there's already two dozen ideas for things we should do once it's nicer out. I'm looking forward to this summer.
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mattrolls's parents were also up this weekend to see the show, so I got to hang out with all of them Saturday afternoon at the Museum of Science, and again for brunch Sunday morning at Johnny D's (yum) before they left town again. At the MoS, we saw the Omnimax show Pulse, which is kind of about the Stomp dance/percussion troupe, but within that framework it showcases some amazing rhythm and dance work from about a dozen different cultures. African, more African, Brazilian, Japanese, Native American. Spanish flamenco. The bell-ringers in Winchester Cathedral. A fascinating underwater sequence that I didn't quite catch the context of. The whole thing was presented with absolutely no voiceover, and gorgeous Omnimax scenery. I find rhythm very infectious, so I was tapping my feet (and probably whaling away on the armrests) the whole time, and came out of there going (a) "I must go buy that doumbek I've been wanting, Right Now" and (b) "Screw tonight's show, let's go dancing!" It was fun.
But so we had our Saturday show, then our closing performance Sunday afternoon, then struck the set in six hours. I'm slightly sore all over today, but it seems I managed to avoid aggravating my wrist (which is still recovering from damage due to overzealous use of -- and, no doubt, poor technique with -- the screw guns at put-in two weeks ago).
And now we never have to do Utopia ever again. Although it was fun, for the most part.
And now we clean for Pesach.
roozle-sunspiral clan came to the show; it was great to see them. So did several other cool folks, like cthulhia and prog... and C, for his second go-round (he'd come the previous Sunday). Needless to say, it was also great to see him. :-) Blew off shul Saturday morning to take him to breakfast at Carberry's, where (among much other good conversation) he told me about another of the installations he's worked on, a set of bells on a pedestrian bridge at the Charles River Dam. We were briefly tempted to zip over there so he could show it to me, but the weather was yucky and we were both getting pressed for time, so, another day. It seems there's already two dozen ideas for things we should do once it's nicer out. I'm looking forward to this summer.mattrolls's parents were also up this weekend to see the show, so I got to hang out with all of them Saturday afternoon at the Museum of Science, and again for brunch Sunday morning at Johnny D's (yum) before they left town again. At the MoS, we saw the Omnimax show Pulse, which is kind of about the Stomp dance/percussion troupe, but within that framework it showcases some amazing rhythm and dance work from about a dozen different cultures. African, more African, Brazilian, Japanese, Native American. Spanish flamenco. The bell-ringers in Winchester Cathedral. A fascinating underwater sequence that I didn't quite catch the context of. The whole thing was presented with absolutely no voiceover, and gorgeous Omnimax scenery. I find rhythm very infectious, so I was tapping my feet (and probably whaling away on the armrests) the whole time, and came out of there going (a) "I must go buy that doumbek I've been wanting, Right Now" and (b) "Screw tonight's show, let's go dancing!" It was fun.But so we had our Saturday show, then our closing performance Sunday afternoon, then struck the set in six hours. I'm slightly sore all over today, but it seems I managed to avoid aggravating my wrist (which is still recovering from damage due to overzealous use of -- and, no doubt, poor technique with -- the screw guns at put-in two weeks ago).
And now we never have to do Utopia ever again. Although it was fun, for the most part.
And now we clean for Pesach.